The Taxpayers’ Union can reveal that Te Wharekura o Tauranga Moana is set to take staff to Tahiti this Friday and refuses to answer basic questions to justify the spend.
Taxpayers’ Union Executive Director Jordan Williams said:
“Earlier this week we received a tip off that Te Wharekura o Tauranga Moana is taking all its staff to Tahiti for a ‘team building’ and ‘leadership’ trip. The school has refused to engage with us, return calls, or answer questions. In fact, since our reaching out yesterday morning the school’s phone has literally been off the hook.”
“No wonder the Principal is hiding. This is taxpayer-funded tourism, not education.”
I’ve been waiting for the media to cover this story. An entire school staff using taxpayer funds to go to Tahiti. Surely worth at least a small article?
David Farrar runs Curia Market Research, a specialist opinion polling and research agency, and the popular Kiwiblog where this article was sourced. He previously worked in the Parliament for eight years, serving two National Party Prime Ministers and three Opposition Leaders
4 comments:
Some context is required here. Te Wharekura o Tauranga Moana is a bilingual secondary school situated in Tauranga. Its principles and values are stated to be "manaakitanga (caring), wairuatanga (spirituality), matauranga (knowledge acquisition), hauora (physical wellbeing), mana (respect and dignity) and te reo Maori."
It seems to be fulfilling its role perfectly, teaching pampered Maori kids how to get on the tax payer funded gravy train while claiming to be a victim.
Expect more of this arrogance if National hasn’t the guts to stop NZ becoming an apartheid nation. One wonders about the mentality of Luxon.
Being ignorant in these matters and not knowing what a Te Wharekura o Tauranga Moana is, I clicked on the link hoping for enlightenment, only to be transferred to a website written entirely in Maori with no apparent attempt to translate it to the language spoken overwhelmingly by the inhabitants of this country. Superficially, the photographs provided suggest it is indeed a school, but I remain ignorant about whether it is a public school, private school, integrated school or charter school. However, whatever type of school it is, the website demonstrates an arrogance unbecoming an institution receiving taxpayer funding, as it undoubtedly does. And if it is a public school, is it not time the current Government's insistence on the use of English by agencies of the State be properly enforced?
Of course the msm won't run this story, their job is to protect the far left and radicals. At least you are running this story David. It is news, make no mistake about it. We all need to go to ird and ask for our taxpayer portion of this trip to be refunded. No more wastage. Enough is enough.
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